The Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002) is a longitudinal survey that will monitor the transitions of a national probability sample of 10th-graders in public, Catholic, and other private schools. Future survey waves will follow both students and high school dropouts and will monitor the transition of the cohort to postsecondary education, the labor force, and family formation.
Of 1,221 eligible contacted schools, 752 participated in the study, for an overall weighted school participation rate of approximately 68 percent (62 percent unweighted). Of 17,591 selected eligible students, 15,362 participated, for an overall weighted student response rate of approximately 87 percent. (School and student weighted response rates reflect use of the base weight [design weight] and do not include nonresponse adjustments.)
Information for the study was obtained not just from students and their school records, but also from the students’ parents, their teachers, their librarians and the administrators of their schools.
Further information on ELS:2002 may be obtained from:
Jeffrey Owings
Elementary/Secondary & Libraries Studies Division
National Center for Education Statistics
1990 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Jeffrey.Owings@ed.gov
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/els2002
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